Windows 7: Default File Type Associations - Restore

thanka a lot..it did work for me..

You're welcome Dilip Kumar, and welcome to Seven Forums. Glad it could help.

What about .ai ? (Illustrator CS3, properly installed, but somehow got mixed up with an older version (CS2), which I subsequently uninstalled. Now it won't let me change file associations to the later version).

Hello Greg, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if reinstalling CS3 to do a repair install may help.

Are you able to select to "Open with" CS3 or it's .exe file for .ai files?

Open With - Change Default Program

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

fantastic!

thank you thank you thank you.

I downloaded the EXE file which changed all my file and programs back from Wordpad .

Spent all day yesterday till 4am this morning and all today without sucess

You're most welcome Yamaha, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Thanks for replying Shawn -
- nope, Illustrator doesn't show up on the list and I get no action when selecting the .exe.
By default, the program/exe selection box opens to 'C:\Program Files', but it's actually installed in 'c:\program files (x86)'. (BTW, sorry it's CS4 actually, not CS3. Tried relocating the exe to 'program files' but of course that didn't work).
Also, CS4 apparently doesn't allow a repair, just un/re-install.

Cheers,
--G


[Hello Greg, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if reinstalling CS3 to do a repair install may help.

Are you able to select to "Open with" CS3 or it's .exe file for .ai files?

Open With - Change Default Program

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn]

In that case, you might check in Default programs to see if you may be able set CS4 as the default program with all of it's associations.

Default Programs - Set a Program's Default Associations

If that doesn't help, then you might see if uninstalling and reinstalling CS4 may.

Re-inst should definitely work, but was trying to avoid that to preserve pref settings etc., that's why I was hoping for a registry fix/reset. Thanks anyway. --G

I downloaded the .exe fix file and right clicked on it. Clicked Merge and it opened as text.
Went to Defaults and changed the .reg entry from Notepad to C:\windows\regedit.
Right-clicked the .exe fix file but Merge was replaced with Open.
Went back to Defaults and Notepad was shown as the default even though the text line showed regedit.
I am the (confused) administrator. What am I missing?